Mbuemo heading to Man Utd

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In my 'It's never gonna happen thread' about Rodrygo.

We discussed Bummo at length.

I raised concerns about him being absent from the squad for the month of January next season for the African Cup of Nations. Voiced my dislike for that illustrious regional tournament being played mid season.

Plus more recently the deeper dive into his stats, looking at his XG and penalty goals. Bummo's scored +10 on his XG. Is this a true next step for the fella or is it a season where he's played above himself? We'll find out next season and the Graveyard of ambition.

The reason he's chose to go to the swamp is purely financial. Whilst I argue players should get paid the majority of the revenue generated from the sport. Going to play for a club with no European football, no guarantee of achieving that next season with 8 other teams being in stronger positions is disappointing. Bummo's demands were between 180,000 and 225,000 quid a week depending on who you listen to.

He wants to match Cunha's money. Understandable.

Plus the word is that Brentford want north of 65million quid for him. That's not a good price. That's too far too much. 50mil makes sense but as I mentioned else where, anything more and it's not worth it. He's not worth more money than Isak.

This time last season, we were all raging at The Filth blasting another 200+mil on the catalogue of failures they brought in, Zerkee et al. Everyone was p!ssed that they were going be able to 'cartel their way back to the UCL'. Didn't work out for them did it?

Amorim is still the same guy who guided them to 15th. They won't be building a squad that will do what he needs them to do. Also, apparently he's handed his resignation in before the end of the season. What a coward!

That's not a happy ship.

No doubt they'll do better than they did this past season, lord knows with that spend and those resources they should sit minimum 8th. However, time will tell on whether the Portuguese can make it work in an unworkable environment. A poor start to the season, negative results and poor football will see the fans up in arms again.

Sir Ball sack is still cutting jobs and doing his best to alienate the fan base.

So, I'm not concerned at all.

Disappointed in the players choices but then again, we really don't know if he was our No.1 and the player Eddie absolutely wanted. I highly doubt Eddie Howe is that disappointed. So long as we get a quality player in the positions we need to fill he'll get on and keep delivering

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The two alternatives mentioned are really not WOW.

Madueke is too much of an individual, IMO.

Maybe Eddie can mould the lad. We need spend no more than 35-40m quid for the lad. He's only 23 going 24 so possibly.

However, He's not a team player, talks about winning the Golden balloon rather than the Champions League with the team. Says everything about the kid.

The other Mo Kudus, is another African.

Despite how good he is we'll be losing him to the Ghana for AFCON Sun, Dec 21, 2025 – Sun, Jan 18, 2026

Kudus just isn't it for that kind of money. He's versatile for sure, prefers the right, left footed. Ticks Eddie Boxes but it's again another player who can be considered 'established, known'. The money doesn't make sense.

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Poundland Bruno (nice one, Raga!) refused Saudi move - BBC today. Bad news for Manyoo??

If we go under the radar (buy relatively unknowns from outside the PL) and out perform ManU again I will p*ss myself laughing.

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Poundland Bruno (nice one, Raga!) refused Saudi move - BBC today. Bad news for Manyoo??

If we go under the radar (buy relatively unknowns from outside the PL) and out perform ManU again I will p*ss myself laughing.

Yeah I like that one too.

Tell me he's not Poundland, the pickle stabbing toothed little midget.

They're gonna be in serious trouble, they can't get people off the books. We had a similar issue with the Ashley long contract mob.